For Allison Epstein, author of the recently published “Fagin the Thief,” Fagin was the first Jewish character she encountered ...

1. Charles Dickens was forced to work at a young age. The eldest son of Elizabeth and John Dickens was born in February 1812 on Portsea Island in the British city of Portsmouth, and moved around ...

Charles Dickens was a terrific walker. Many nights he roved the streets of London with such insomniac vigor that he might still be striding along as dawn broke in the great skies overhead. Dickens ...

Going Mad for Charles Dickens Two centuries after his birth, the novelist is still wildly popular, as a theme park, a new movie and countless festivals attest. Joshua Hammer - Contributing writer.

Charles Dickens despised the Victorian legal system. In “Bleak House,” he invented the epic, decades-spanning Jarndyce v. Jarndyce legal battle over a family inheritance to expose the system ...